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The New York Times
11/4/2009
"Maine, with its libertarian leanings, had seemed to offer an excellent chance of reversing the national trend of voters rejecting marriage equality at the ballot box. Instead, it became the 31st state to block same-sex marriage through a public referendum.
"...'[Ballot questions] tend to marginalize the group that is being targeted and inflame people’s passions in a way that is at best divisive and at worst terribly cruel,' said Jennifer C. Pizer, marriage project director for Lambda Legal, an advocacy group based in Los Angeles. 'Our founders did not intend to allow a majority to take basic rights from a minority.'"
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